students take to the streets of. brussels and of course the continued closure of all of the. consistent with. the finding of the post mortem examination. by the. leaders of the world's major developing economies look to strengthen influence of the brics group. to create a joint bank. from

moscow this is. welcome to the program. students are now taking to the streets of the cypriot capital protesting against the last ditch deal that was sealed on monday and reports say a couple of smoke bombs went off as the crowd. to reopen on tuesday. closed. until thursday even the capital flows will be temporarily restricted the last ditch deal may be hailed as a relief by the government and the e.u. but it's. people struggling to get money. from. this like. part of. that ten billion euro bailout and what will. happen to this back essentially is it will be split into

pieces and people with deposits of more than one hundred thousand euros that are uninsured will have to take a huge here a lost whatever money they have here and many cypriots for the past week have been going to motional rollercoaster wondering what is going to happen to their money to their savings i think look at this example one day it was here the next day it is it and they're wondering is the same thing going to happen to their jobs or their savings to everything else they think they have precisely what did you choose and tonio and manager for the country's biggest bank the bank of cyprus has been thinking all through this rollercoaster week for the first time in my life for fifty four years. and the last week and especially. i was. just too. many more. to.

say ok. the bank of cyprus according to the deal will function as the good back and will take all deposits a less than one hundred thousand euros from like it will however also absorb the debt nine billion euros in loans which like you receive from the european central bank as emergency funding assistance a detail that angers them. is like they want to push. and while this employer you worries about the health of the bank other cypriots worry about when their banks will reopen if at all we have no cash we are just a truth behind him waiting to get something. for hello and while this year a group of. a complete banking. meltdown for many cypriots their feeling towards

the door is one of frustration it's better to go back to the palace for the time we get to. it with the disaster for us it wasn't just before the pounds. from. january two thousand and eight when we entered you're the only other side. so slowly we were able to this kind of situation so now we have such. a situation to have to wait but. it's going to take so long and for now cypriots are forced to wait for banks reopen for cash to start flowing and for jobs and life savings to be secure again. does are still there are nicosia cyprus and amid all the angst and frustration here at r.t. this news just in we're getting reports that the head of the bank of cyprus has resigned

earlier the president of cyprus defending the controversial rescue package admitting though that it's painful it is. yes meanwhile the troika hailed the plan saying it places the country on a sustainable path to recovery but of course the deposit levy has raised fears the same thing could be done in other struggling banks across the continent let's have a look now and see what the head of the year zero group is saying regarding all of this ultimately that if indeed there is a risk in a bank of course first question should be well ok what are you in the bank going to do about it and of course this prompted fears across the eurozone as the cyprus deal has now created a new template for resolving future banking problems as professor of international finance should. explain to my colleague bill daughter a bit earlier of the bell that has not only scared small the savers but may trigger a big investors to start pulling their money out of other e.u.

banks it's going to be tight amount to the greek social economic debacle that we are seeing. are going to go into a deep recession and this is going to be another decade lost for this country clearly the europeans and the i.m.f. they have broken one of the most basic tenants of financial crisis management and that is safeguarding the small saver and what they have done is put the fear of god into small sievers about their own local banks and that's the beginning of the end for any financial market and specially for foreign investors coming into those markets no one's going to be putting money into local southern banks anymore and indeed even those economies spain france which are really fragile at the moment but big economies i mean if if their investors are sort of pulling money out of those countries that is significant in that there is a huge probability that it might actually start to happen because we have opened pandora's box right now and we can shut the lid on this now. and i learned today

here on. his that gives his unique take on the cypriot financial crisis saying that chaos and uncertainty and now beginning to dominate. cyprus banks are going to open today and they aren't yes they are no they're not are they haircut on the deposits is ten percent now it's fifteen percent now it's forty percent no it's zero percent or maybe it's one hundred percent cyprus is leaving the euro no it's not the troika backs the plan no does a backup plan yes it does no it doesn't welcome to the new world order it's called yes no maybe and maybe you'd have gold silver and big coin taking out of this mess or else your wealth is going to be well yes no or maybe the way. stacey exactly max you know there's one thing there's never uncertain about all of these plans they have and that is that yes none of them will work. bottom line analysis yet they all don't work.

well there are mounting fears cyprus is sliding into deep recession and unemployment possible repercussions in other ailing european economies not all website dot com we're asking you to get involved and now that the bailout deal is sealed for cyprus what is next let's bring up the numbers now over the past hour the fluctuations of. the still fluctuating quite a lot. this will result in a total collapse of trust in the banks of course further aggravating the financial crisis down to just over a people saying that other countries are in line for the same process that the reverberation effect of spreading across parts of the eurozone third position twenty two percent while it's more discontent protests on the way just down to the minority which is somewhat surprising from some of the. ten percent now and saying that well that's poised for the exit. thanks to the euro there is still time for

you to get involved we love having you involved in the stories tell us what's what you think is going to happen. one block struggles financially another is looking to go from strength to strength south africa is preparing to host a summit of the world's emerging economic giants later we'll bring you more background and analysis on the developing brics group. now a post-mortem examination reveals that the death of russian self exile tycoon boris berezovsky was consistent with his body was found in the bathroom of his home on saturday let's get details now sara first now joining us live here on the program sara good to see you are the latest that you know regarding the investigation into his death what can you do to bring us up to speed. well we spoke into the thames valley police today and the investigation of course into the death of boris berezovsky ongoing they've released the results of that post-mortem examination carried out by him office pathologist this found that the cause of death is

consistent with hanging but there's no sign of a violent struggle now you are a member in a statement from the police they said that there was no evidence at that point in the investigation of a third party involvement now they're still toxicology tests to be carried out and the results of that he's expected for a couple of weeks the forensic examination is still taking place. and today the formal id procedure is actually going to be carried out as well to identify that body so sore oversleep it's early days yet but already conspiracy theorists all around the world having a field day with this always suggesting well this person was involved it must have been a third party state of involvement as you say the thames police saying no such thing as past they found no no evidence of that but all you are all you is a general public or i suppose the police or stinking suicide on this matter we know the financially he was nearly a broken man by the end of his time as the birds off screen. well with such a hugely controversial character that you had in boris berezovsky there was always

going to be this huge amount of intrigue and speculation of the police have said they're not speculating but they'd also said in one of their statements that they're trying to build up a picture now of the state of mind of the man in the last days of his life and i think a lot of people d. feel like that kid of the pointing towards them looking at the possibility of suicide as he said there is a huge amount of speculation from the sort of far fetched the fantastical and we've had a lot and lots of comments and media reporting on this nelson unconfirmed reports that the body was found with a scarf next to it that those bruising around the neck as he said the police haven't confirmed these details yet but there's lots of bits of the puzzle that now need to be pulled together and we've had the report from the russian presence press attash a that boris berezovsky was said to have sent a letter to the russian president asking for forgiveness and expressing his longing

to return home now we also know that in the last days of his life it's thought that he gave an off the record talk to a journalist in which he'd spoken of losing the meaning to life and again heads it seemed to make the point that he was very much longing to return home to russia certainly his time in self-imposed exile here in britain has not been the easiest he's had a number of high profile court cases in the last couple of years the most recent of which a fellow oligarch for him in a primary that he lost and that was really described by those around him at the time as having a very significant psychological as well as financial impact so i mean really the pitch of being built up is a quite a sad man he was certainly having a lot of personal struggles in his life but as he said there's all these bits to pull together and a huge amount of on our own said questions at this point and so that's what the police i think in are going to be focusing on trying to. pull that all together as the investigation continues that's right there are certainly there are some that

were saying that in the final days of the big multi-billion dollar legal dispute between a better but i'm over it. he actually went to court with no papers no papers and hands apparently no homework done and when i spoke to people of crosstalk about this yesterday he said well perhaps berezovsky was just going for one last. live in london thank you. we're coming to you live from moscow where for the past decade certainly the russian capital has been insisting that the london officials extradite the ex billionaire so that he can be tried for money laundering and other offenses but with death a massive thorn in u.k. russian relations has apparently been removed well that's according to author and analyst martin mccord. i think you go down as a band of capitalist. who was more concerned with power than money is political judgment was very very poor because during the year he seemed to be writing very very hard. because of school dooku down as a man who became

a dollar millionaire on the cover troth he became a billionaire under yeltsin but for him tragically misjudged the situation after president putin came to power and ended up perhaps a relatively poor man people are very important and interests in fact seemed to come down to the relations between the two countries regarding an individual west remember that because of a call for the physical overthrow of president believe putin when he was in power. that's pretty serious and he made many accusations. that were assessed nation attempts against his life he play moscow he blamed russia for that and so on that poisoned relations between moscow and london you could find it always in the english press with his name came up. people expected a scandal and said what it what is he going to say now about moscow and what is

what is going to blame putin again for something else. now with him gone that's gone as well hopefully we can move forward and if you like some of the poison has been taken out of the relations. website. called the rise and fall of. his blog step by step guide to his life as a politician. and. that's an appropriate. very.

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news live from moscow this is artsy at the world's giant emerging economies are gathering in south africa looking to reshape their brics organization the leaders of brazil russia china india and of course the host nation are all at the summit with egypt's president morsi he said to attendees are hoping it's a joining the bloc in the not to use it just in future reporting now auntie's election reporting alternately on the expectations for strengthening the group. since its inception in two thousand and nine many have been wondering what brics is all about a symbol of growing global multiple lera tea or a counterweight to the e.u. and nato the leaders of the member states have been cautiously downplaying its role

saying this alliance is purely economic and exists mostly on verbal agreements officially it's not even a legally bound international organization the greeks leaders are only now contemplating setting up headquarters in one of the capitals but just look at every brics country separately russia the world's largest exporter china the world's second largest economy and the source of a cheap labor force india cheap intellectual resources brazil with its enormously powerful agricultural sector and the republic of south africa the continent's leader in natural resources but the country's economic stats together the numbers are nothing short of impressive last year the brics countries average four percent g.d.p. growth whilst the g seven countries came up with only zero point seven percent and their collective gross national product already exceeds twenty seven percent of the global output and this economic might of the group of five could diversify into a joint brics development bank this idea appeared during last year's summit in new

delhi and there are certain indications this year's meeting in durban could pave the way to its creation should this prove to be the case the world may see a new powerful financial institution we are now on the verge of a formal decision. it would be a substantial in terms of capital and capital or substantial international. development bank. is probably one of the major deliverables having brics more and more prominent in the area of economy international finance development of infrastructure the common standpoint among the brics states and major international issues could also be a huge factor in global geopolitics the war in syria is just one of the examples. the group of five has been insisting on a peaceful solution to the conflict and with the moscow and beijing firmly standing within the u.n. security council against any military intervention no wonder experts say bashar assad recently asked the group of five to help bring the conflict to an end many

experts believe that despite brics being an informal group its geo political weight is already very high as for political rule of bricks q.j. actually is the major international institution which preserved the whole human kind of. solving economic problems for example the g twenty. i think at this point the decisions of g. twenty uprooted to the position of brics so brics has yet to become an officially established organization but the russian president already said cooperation within this bloc will be more school store for him priority this year and considering that at least five countries including mexico indonesia in egypt are willing to join the world may soon see a powerful alliance of developing economies which experts say even in its current configuration may become the world's wealthiest union of states in thirty years. i twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital u.s.

officials are going ton of mowbray about knowledge that more prisoners have joined the hunger strike over alleged mistreatment by three year in a hospital with ten detainees being force fed defense lawyers say the majority of the one hundred sixty six detainees are refusing food accusing the officials of trying to downplay the actual number reporting on this guy in a chicken. despair among guantanamo detainees grows as now even their lawyers are denied direct access to them attorneys say they had a visit scheduled for early next week with one of their clients who lost thirty pounds since the strike began at the beginning of february that is it was approved by the military but the attorneys say they have just been informed by the authorities that they cannot visit the client because the military flight scheduled for next week was tense old. also most recently the navy decided to discontinue commercial flights to the camp so tourney's are really struggling to find out the true extent of what's happening in guantanamo now as u.s. officials obviously try to downplay the hunger strike more criticism is coming in

from the international community will heard criticism from the un commissioner for human rights very strong words from amnesty international they call guantanamo an american gulag this is what the head of their security with human rights campaign said quote instead of justice for the nine eleven attacks one tunnel has brought us torture indefinite detention unfair trials and hunger strikes so i made a very broad international criticism of what the u.s. officials are basically nothing if you months ago the state department shut down the office that was working to close the prison which effectively means that the detainees are stuck there in this legal limbo indefinitely their attorneys fear that we're going to see more suicides human rights organizations say there were hundreds of suicide attempts at the prison at least seven suicides have been reported so far including a detainee named latif he had spent eleven years in guantanamo he was cleared for release by both bush and obama administrations he took his own life in september last year. he's gone into kind reporting now the idea is cracking down on

inappropriate behavior from its troops is ready soldiers online videos controversial content of quickly gone viral there are fears these videos may be undermining the government's attempts to use social media as a tool. or investigates who was really responsible for damaging israel's public image. offensive and damaging or better fun a picture of an israeli soldier with mud on his face titled a bomb a style posted on facebook by none other than the head of the i.d.f. social media unit don't wish to merge just as the government uses social media for explaining for complaining for propaganda or for spinning it also has to do with private soldiers using new media every soldier is a broadcast station. it looks innocent enough but this soldier got two weeks in a military prison. while after posting these pictures on his facebook profile this

infantry fighter was brought to book for abuse of power and misuse of army weaponry . these soldiers turned a patrol in hebron into a dance move. it angered the i.d.f. but others felt they did a far better job of showing the human side of the army than any spin doctor if occurred under the military code of justice offense and i think that sergeant and above which is in fact any conduct which is unbecoming an i.d.f. soldier would would would be for really potentially at least exposure to criminal liability could actually find yourself in jail but it's not always fun and games neither is it so clear cut the i.d.f. told r.t. that a sniper who posted this image was dealt with appropriately it's the problem of free speech i don't see how you can control it i don't think that the dancing is abusing power i do think that putting your sniper a more in innocent person is an abuse of power and i think this is that it's thinks

in the. gear you gave was an officer with a paratroopers unit he says he'd brief his soldiers regularly about what they could and could not post online but many were careless or childishly unaware of the impact one clip could have you have to remember that soldiers are. kids. are venturing of just there are just kids that missive the receiver of power just for them just for fun is not shooting the kid is not trying to kill the kid the irony is that the i.d.f. itself put so much emphasis on social networks using them extensively to promote its actions. the i.d.f. has taken its war to twitter facebook instagram and even tumblr turning its social media tool box into the most globally visible arm of the israeli defense force it

started during the israeli gaza war at the end of two thousand and eight but the idea of social media department flexed its online muscles during the flotilla incident a year and a half later distributing regular video taken from an israeli assault craft and tweeting in sixteen languages after the most recent israel gaza war last november the erstwhile embarrassed idea of social media guru boasted his unit had beaten the enemy suffered drug claimed foreign media asked more questions about the idea of twitter activity than about the army's bombings in gaza but when ordinary soldiers start using the same platforms all that positive public diplomacy threatens to be undermined one click at a time. policy r t tel aviv. if you can stay with us for a moment here on c it'll be i'll be martin and breaking the set that's just around the corner.

oh since the new pope was chosen the calls for reform are analysts everyone wants the new pope to allow this and to allow that but the problem is that the catholic church is a religion not a product and people don't like the way a pepsi bottle looks while the company will have to in theory change it to meet public demand but the pope claims to represent the will of the creator of the universe the pope supposedly holds and protects an ancient an eternal truth so how can you expect this eternal truth just up and change because of public demand even though they pretend like adult religions do change over time but how can you expect the pope after hundreds of years of saying that people would be condemned to the fires of hell and eternity in the charred walls of the damned for certain sins just now say well i guess those sins are ok if you are catholic and you want your

religion to change constantly then why do you believe in it why bother having principles and rules in the first place supposedly given to you by the almighty if you're just going to change them whenever you feel like it i don't get this but that's just my opinion. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom part of the big picture. you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i had lunch i got so many i mean i have my hands down i know that i'm still really messed up. and we're

all for it so personally. it's. worse for going through. my doubts to the. radio guy for minestrone. what we're about to give you never seen anything like this i'm telling. you. what's going on everyone this is abby martin and this is breaking the set so last week congress passed section seventy three five of the continuing resolution the spending bill otherwise known as the farmer assurance provision which is truly misleading because this bill has nothing to do with protecting farmers in fact this dangerous piece of legislation is the result of countless lobbying efforts that give the biotech giant monsanto an easy way to escape any sort sign of.